RITA'S CXLVI: They Tell Me Revenge is Sweet and From Where They Stand I’m Sure it is

[jessecuster3]

Well, we're a gay couple after Christmas, so Cedic and I will have the gym and joyless steamed veggies as our Friday night date.

Ohh, I will be eating salad for lunch again, today.

[the4thpip]

I'll be limited to what I can do at the gym today, unless this stiff neck loosens up.

[Winslow]

Hrm. Apparently it's not just me, and apparently it's not eyeliner.

I can totally relate to the story about having a complex as a young boy and having long and dark eyelashes. I too had long dark eyelashes and was told when I was 4 that I looked like a girl. I promptly tried to pluck them out. I stopped after a couple of plucks (hurt too much).

[Winslow]

Ohh, I will be eating salad for lunch again, today.

Get your FIBER!

Cunard's Facebook post about pooping made me laugh and giggle for several minutes. I am such a third grader.

[Merey]

Slam turned me onto the Thursday Next novels a few years ago, but I just got an ebook copy of the Eyre Affair on sale. So yay!

I love me some Jasper Fforde. Thursday Next is a great prtagonist. They almost made me interested in Jane Eyre. The Nursery Crimes are also great, though it's long past time for a third installment.

If you like Fforde, you'll probably like Christopher Moore. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and The Stupidest Angel are pure joy.

The Thursday Next novels are so very awesome!

[bipolar danger girl]

Are we still tossing out the names of delightfully mad novels here? No? Well too bad.

Anyone here familiar with Sewer, Gas and Electric by Matt Ruff? It's one of my fave and, well, I'm bad at describing things, so here's something I cut and pasted from the book's page on Amazon:

Set in New York city in the year 2023, it features a huge cast of characters, including humans, androids and a mutant great white shark, all revolving around Harry Gant, a Donald Trump-style billionaire real estate developer who's building the world's tallest skyscraper, a "new Tower of Babel." Holding the many subplots together is Gant's ex-wife, Joan Fine, who sets out to investigate the murder of a Wall Street financier who had sought to topple Gant Industries and who was ostensibly beaten to death with a signed first edition of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. As Fine's research leads her through the history of the Walt Disney Co., Gant Industries and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, not to mention many digressions into Rand's theory of Objectivism, she uncovers a sweeping conspiracy involving a mysterious plague that wiped out the entire black race at the turn of the 21st century. Ruff uses a cartoonist's palette in his portraits of everyone and everything: Philo Dufresne, the eco-terrorist captain of a Yellow Submarine-style vessel called Yabba-Dabba-Doo; Harvard-educated pornographer Lexa Thatcher; an attack submarine called City of Women (wo)manned by one Wendy Mankiller; a whole caste of "Electric Negroes" who serve the city's white upper class.

I think my brain snapped. On the list!

Baby won't sleep again.

Fucking kill me.

I think Tadhg's old glasses gave me super powers. Let me try... this... POW! BAMO! WHUMP! Hope that worked! *twirl*

Anyone else been having issues with the boards the last couple days?

New year, new server problems?

Yes. Fuck Monica. I blame Jonah. I always blame Jonah. Fucking up my free entertainment!



Good morning, delicious nerds.

[Royal]

What's up people?

[Jeff Brady]

I think my brain snapped.

How can you tell?

On the list!

Okay, since you qualified that...

I think Tadhg's old glasses gave me super powers. Let me try... this... POW! BAMO! WHUMP! Hope that worked! *twirl*

He was out by 5:30. I passed out an hour later, making me an hour late for work. If not for that, I'd be awake since 2:30.

[bipolar danger girl]

What's up people?

Fuck all. Time to make breakfast for the brats.

[Royal]

Fuck all. Time to make breakfast for the brats.

Already had my cheerios.

[Puma]

Already had my cheerios.

and I had my egg on toast.



I need someone with the super talent of finding things...over two hundred hand cut out 'clothing' for a pre-school craft have gone missing, not good.

[jessecuster3]

Where is the last place you saw them?

[Puma]

Where is the last place you saw them?

the cart right outside my cubicle ( I use it for storage of 'shared' items)

[jessecuster3]

the cart right outside my cubicle ( I use it for storage of 'shared' items)

Is the cart still there?

[Slam_Bradley]

It's 39ºC here right now (102ºF). It's after 6 pm. And I have no A/C.

It's currently - 8 F here (-22 C). I'm hard pressed to sympathize.

So, is everyone aware that Warren Ellis second novel came out this week, because I had no idea until I stumble across it on Amazon. It's called Gun Machine and it sounds freaking amazing.

I added it to my extraordinarily long list of books to read yesterday.